Education and society
Concept of society
Society is the fellow feeling, co-operation friendship and sympathy among two or more persons who live together with common feelings, bonds and aspirations. Thus, Society is an organization of persons which guarantees security to the members of their individuality and existence. Society is a dynamic entity. Social entity or society has its own political, economical, cultural and religious ideologies according to which it provides more opportunities to develop each individual in the society.
By nature man is social. His whole life is a gift of society. He has learnt speech, reading, writing and behaving with others from the society. He is indebted to society for his life and development. An individual, isolated completely from society, will not survive for long.
The following points can also be used to explain the concept of Society
Generally people living together in communities’ .They have same/common life-style, attitude, heritage, common aim, norms, and religion. We are living in a particular society where in we follow rules and regulations, and customs. We have our own purpose, set of aims and religion. We know that a group of people living together is also a society. It does not matter that they have different religion, beliefs and purposes.
Let’s understand in brief the difference between society and community
Community is the combination of two words ’Com’ and Munis’ While com means together and Munis means to serve. It means to serve together. It is a place where people live close to one another in the place where distance they follow the same rules and regulation customs, etc..It is a kind of society. Society is a broad term and community is a kind of it. One sociologist defined community in this way.”A community is the smallest group of territory that embraces all the aspects of society” Dimensions of the society builds a system in the society.
Definitions
1] Happies
“A society is a kind of community whose members have become socially conscious of their mode of life and united by common sets of aims and values”
Key words: Community, socially conscious, common sets of aims and values
Happies considered society as a community wherein people are aware about their way of living life. They are socially integrated and they have common aims and values. Although, they are different in nature and thought they are united and their integration is nothing but society.
2] Maciver
“Society is the web of social relationship and it is always changing”
¡ Key Words: Web of relationship, changing
¡ In Society we observe people are united with different relation to the members of the society. The moment you joined new community your relation would be changed. There are many relations like friend, brother, sister, uncle which tie people emotionally as well as socially. But these relations are changing because of people‘s different thinking and having different values and aim. But they live together in a form of society so that MacIver called society as the web of social relationships.
3] “It is not a group of people. It is a system of relationship that exists between the individuals of group” -Wright
Key words: Group people, system of relation
According to Wrright every individual has relationship with other individuals. They interact with each other which leads to reflection, sharing and thinking amongst them and they decide common aim. They live with harmony only if they have good relations so society is a system of relations of the group.
4] “Society is the union itself, the organization, the sum of formal relations in which associating individuals are bound together” Gidding
Key words: organization, formal relations, individual are bound together
Gidding again pointed out the relationship between individual but these relation are formal by nature that means every individuals is not brother of sister of others but they have that kind of understanding and so they live together and that’s why Gidding suggested society is the union or the organization of individuals. And this integration of individuals is the outcome of their friendly relations.
Note: To explain all the definitions you will quote the example.
Characteristics of society
1] In society we can find commonness in terms of peoples understanding, their aims, their life style and responsibilities.
2] A society is based on social relationship so people live together in communities there are social rules and regulations which should be followed by all members of society.
3] There is a sense of belongingness between members of society. They live together with a sense of oneness. So unity is the major characteristic of a society. The proverb suggests birds of a feathered flock together.
4. In a society people live with the feeling co- operate that means they co- operate others and help others.
5. Division of labors and social rules.
Ina society everyone has a particular duty to perform as per his level, caste and education, eg, sweepers usually clean the streets. So we can find assigning duties or job or work.
6. Diversity: As it said unity in diversity yes it is there in Indian society. People of different religion, culture live together a society but we can also find diversity in terms of different values, beliefs, life styles and language economy etc. though we are united in diversity.
7. Dynamic: As life is dynamic everything change in society one generation after another generation. So there is change in everything including life style economy language culture way of believing in god different religions, economy and so on .So society is dynamic.
8. Competition: Various types of competition has been found in society every field of survival in the society.
9. Conflict: There are conflict lie in between two neighbors, or for the requirements of justice etc...so there are conflicts both positive and negative. eg environmental organization and global warming are the universal conflict for all societies.
Why do not realize that this is all nonsence.
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